Joshua Francis Fisher (1807-1873)
Lawyer & Historian of Philadelphia & "Alverthorpe" Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania
He was described by his granddaughter, Sophia Cadwalader, as, "a man of rare cultivation and literary taste... Everything prospered until the time of the Civil War. His wife, of course, was intensely Southern in her feelings, he himself took the legal point of view as to the right of Secession; and, the way the war was conducted, the indignities offered to Southerners or Southern sympathisers, increased all their feelings ten-fold. On the other hand, the daughters just growing up had very strong sentiments for the young men of their acquaintance going off to join the Northern Army, and so, much family distress ensued." He helped found the Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind.
